These changes are a clear attempt to make the amendment seem far more extreme and dangerous than it actually is.
All they’ll have in the actual voting booth is LaRose’s summary.
Lauren Blauvelt, co-chair of Ohioans United for Reproductive Rights, slammed the summary as “propaganda.”
Even one of the Republican Ballot Board members, anti-abortion Senator Theresa Garavone, warned that the amendment’s true nature would now be “hidden behind overly broad language.”.
But Blauvelt was confident that the pro-choice side would prevail in November.
Republicans have already tried once—and failed spectacularly—to block the abortion amendment.
What’s more, A USA Today Network/Suffolk University poll released in July found that 58 percent of Ohioans support enshrining abortion rights, while just 32 percent oppose it. »